What people forget is that this was true in the old days as well. Even back in the 60s and 70s there were over ten accelerators throughout the world constantly

What people forget is that this was true in the old days as well. Even back in the 60s and 70s there were over ten accelerators throughout the world constantly doing science, and you can bet they were booked up with new speculative searches every month. The vast majority found nothing, and were forgotten. That's because there's a very finite number of things to discover in fundamental physics, which is of course what makes the field so exciting in the first place.